Arbitrator E. R. Scales ruled that Berrien County didn’t violate its CBA, stating that an employee “called in to work” outside his regularly scheduled working hours shall be paid overtime for a minimum of three hours, when it denied a deputy sheriff’s request for such pay after he was ordered to come in to take a confirmatory Covid-19 test. Arbitrator Scales found that being called in “to work” meant that the activity the grievant was to engage in was the same work he would perform during his regularly scheduled hours, and that as a paramilitary organization, it was unlikely that ...

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